lakes

Coinciding with National Wolf Awareness Week, a coalition of citizen monitors from Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota and other states will be patrolling Wisconsin’s recreational wolf hunt, which begins October 15th.

Paul Driessen is author of "Eco-Imperialism: Green Power, Black Death."
Linda Lear is author of the biography "Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature."
"We care more about our green lawns than about songbirds. Pesticides are persistent and can't be simply repressed. Birds and fish have injested pollutants. Humility and arrogance are part of our collective life story. We are not in control of nature and have to think of the whole of things, the interlocking nature of life.."
RELATED LINK: "Trees have Standing"
William O. Douglas, the longest serving Supreme Court justice (35 years), was an uncompromising civil libertarian and lover of life. Growing up in upstate New York, he grieved when lakes became cesspools. Lakes are not anti-freeze and mountains are more than landfill. Reducing nature to short-term profit is a blindness and path to anthropomorphic self-destruction.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_O._Douglas

Input by Patrick J. Neuman, Senior Hydrologist, sent June 5, 2003 for
consideration in the NOAA-NWS Strategic Plan for FY 2003 - FY 2008
stated:
... "Of paramount importance is to greatly increase the application
of climate information and knowledge to aid in the preparations
for rapidly warming U.S. regional climates having increasing
frequencies and extremes of excessive heat and humidity for
longer periods of time" ...

A collection of links to some stories I have been posting in the recent past, gathered together, which describe changes taking place in the climate around the world. Any one of these stories might not seem significant, but taken together they indicate that weather patterns are being disturbed and are changing around the globe, with the greatest changes taking place over the last three decades, and the rate of change has been accelerating in the last decade.